Railway tie



H. J. WELLS.A

RAILWAY TIE. APPLICATIQN 4FILED Ayn. 1,l 1921.

Y Patented A131718, 1922.

Unirse stares PATENT oFFicE.

RALPH J. WELLS, or' DAYTON', onio.

RArLWAY TIE.

iniaosa.

Specification of Letters IEatent.V Patented Apr.. 18 1922,

applicateur;k filed Aprii 7, 1921. serial No. 459,376.

To allwwm tf/nay concern:

j 'Be it known that I, RALPH lvWiiLLs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, inthe county of .l.\/Iontgomery*and` State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new anduseful Improvementsin Railway Ties, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to railway ties and vmore particularly lto a tie for open Ytrack work,v erl cross country trackage.

been found too heavy and unwieldy for -general use in railway track construction and repair work. It has also been a. common practice to embed a skeleton tie construction infv a concrete road bed. Such construction, how-ever, is quite expensive and cannot at the present time be practically employed outside of the city. Theobject of the present invention is to afford a metallic tie suitable for installation in open track construek tion, which willvbe comparatively `light and easily transported, capable of being readily installed in either new or old trackage, and which will have sutlicient anchorage to insure it against creepage., Y

Metallic ties are not newy in the art,\but numerous attempts vhave been kmade to employvvarious metallic forms varying from simple ltie beams to complicated shapes.

These.v however, have been heretofore proven excessively rigid. It has been found in practice that while a solid road bed is spoken of as beine' desirable, such road bed must pos sessv a certain degree of elasticity or re silien'cy,` and that without this resiliency la track laid upon either rigid concrete ties or rigid metallic ties will be disagreeable to ride over, and will induce undue wear of rails and ties, as well as rapid deterioration ofthe rolling stock.

A further important feature ofthe :priesent invention is to incorporate with a metallic tie, resilient rail supporting sleeper block-s whereby the objectionable feature of metallic and concrete ties is effectively overthe above primary and other inci- .transverse l wooden sleeper block about to be inserted dental objects view as will more fully appear inthe specification, the invention conlsists of the feature of construction, the

.parts and combinations thereof, and the mode of .operation or their equivalents as claims.

`hereinafter described andy setfforth in the .Y

Referring 4to the drawings, Fig. 1 is a `perspective view of a portion of railway track embodying the tie forming the subject matter hereof, one of which vhas been shown inseetion. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the metallic form preparatory to receiving ithe .sleeper block. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional vview of va tie von line'VS-- of Fig.

the t-ieon line 1 -4c of Fig. l. Fig. 5 is a sectional view showing the into the pocket of the -tie and Fig. 6 is a similar view showing the` sleeper block firmly embedded in the tie. v

Like` parts are indicated by similar characters vof reference throughout the several views. y y n l i T he railway tie forming the subject matter hereof embodies a metallic form or shape l', which may be rolled, pressed or otherwise formed 1from 'sheet steel, or other metal.

yThis form l.v is ofelongated rectangular shape, having downturned .marginal flanges 2, while locatedy in the top yface of the form .aredepressed spaced pockets or recesses 3.

Tolighten the weight of the tie and furthermore. totprevent center binding, or teeterijng while in use, an opening fr isr 4provi-ded in the `medialportion of the form 1, and to further reduce the weight other openings 5 are formed adjacent to the ends thereof. These .openings l and 5 may also lieprovided with down vturned flanges 6 and 7 as shown in the drawings, or suchv down turned flanges may be Aentirely omitted. However, these flanges 6 and'v as well asthe clown-turned mar- *ginal` flangesl 2- by embedding themselves in Yl. Fig. 4 isa transverse sectional view of the road way serve as anchorage flanges lto .prevent the creep orfdisplacement of the ties vunder the kimpact,` of traliic. By removing the excess of material from'the center ofthe tie as at Llthe bearing surface 'and resistance of. the. tie at this point are materially reduced in comparison with that beneath the rails, whereby under the impact of traiiic' the .tie will seat uniformlyy upon the road bed, and vwill not rest wholly at its ceri-ter with ,theends relieved or loose, which conditin is termed center binding.

tie, this portion will tendto settle'into the roadbed uniformly with the ends of thetie, the diiferei'ice in pressure to which `'it is subjected being vcompensated bythe reduction of bearing surface. Located in the depression or pockets 3 of the form 1 are sleeper blocks 8, preferably thoughpnot necessarily of wood, which sleeperpblocks restY upon cushion strata 9 of asphaltum or other resilient material placed in the bottom of the depression or pocket 3 beneath such blocks. The use of wooden sleeper blocks submerged ina body ofasphaltum, pitch or other similar material is not new in the artl per se.

Howeveij it has heretofore been the practice to provide a recess in. the tie considerably larger than thefslee'per 'block and entirely `surround the sleeper block with the'yieldin'g "or resilient paclringmaterial. I In practice ithas been found that such ,packing material when softened by summer'heat is readily ldisplaced and'forcedy out'of the recess or pocket by. the pressure and constant poundingof tratlicsupon the sleeperbloclr. Such y,packing material cannot be retained inv` av L 4 structure which contemplates the submer- VIVpreferably sealed with a. suitable material sionv or inclosingjof the sleeper block'therein; IThis ditiiciilty has been overcome by fitting the sleeper` block 8 to the'pocket'or .recess 3 allowing only sufficient clearance between the block and the walls ofthe recess Vto compensate for expansion and'con' ytraction of the parts.

intervening space if any between the sleeper block and the side walls. of the pocket is not subiect vto expansion ory contraction or rendered viluid'fbyk summer heat', nor Yeasily `dislodged by the vibration incident to tratfic overwthe rails,l An `asbestos packing will be Vfound suitablaV lalthough other material bel utilized for caullring or sealing these blocks in theirv recesses 'or pockets @The rails ll, rest upon the sleepe-rbloclrs 8,'and

are ksecured in position' by clamp plates '12,

-which engage the base flange of the railland are' secured .by bolts '1,3 .which entend i through suitable holes 14 in the bottom of ,thepockets'or recesses 3, and thence through vthe sleeper bloc/L18 and interposed stratum of' cushioning material, These bolts carry the clamp'plates 12, which engage; the :base l y The tie as thus-"con-k Y structedy 'is installed on the road bedV and flanges of thev rails.

the rails laid thereon, in'a new construction, and insertedbeneath the rails in repair work in exactly the same manner as is'now 'employed in installing tliefordinary Wooden ties. fflhe ties are subject to the same tamping operations by which the grade of the' By thus reducing the resistance and bearuig surface of the track isestablished and maintained, and in all other, respects' the operation andfunc-` tion are'identical with those of the 'wooden` ties However, they possess the advantage of greater durability and equal if not greater ,resiliency than wooden ties,'and are vequally as. economical. They further afford an increased degree of safety since there, is much less danger of rails becoming` loosened or spreading, inasmuch as the attachment means affords positive connection of the railswith the metallic form and ,hence .one

with the other. Vlliile possessing greater durability and strength thanwood ties a metallic'tie constructed as described will be ing the sleeper block inthe recess or pocket i may be employed forthe purpose ofl excluding moisture7 arid particularly preventing Vthe:oozing orescapeof the cushioning material, the preferred form of lsealing'the 1n.

tervening crevice-or joint has been shown in Figs'iand. After depositing the body' 9 of cushion material Vin 'the bottom of the receptacle, a quantity of packing material 15 is distributedabout the walls of the rev ceptacleand also about the bolt and the.

block Siisinserted. The block Sis preferably thoughv not necessarily chamferedor somewhat' reducedin size adjacent toits inner face 'as at 16 to form intermediate the f inner face of the block and the wall of the receptacle an inverted pocket or groove, as at 17, within which the body of packing maroo terial 15 is commiessedby the inserted sleeper block 8. The pressure of tralic upon Y the sleeper block Vis transmitted thence to :the cushion body 9 inthe bottom of thereceptacle, the tendency of which 'toward displacement tends to force 'the' pacltingj body Vto seal the same, from'the inner face of the block and issubjected to the constantpres f sure ofthe trai'fieon the/ cushion body 9.

any suitable or desired fornieither of powstance. Any tendencyof the cushion mate- `Tl'iisbody of packing material may beefVA der or'granular platecharacter, or itmay be in strands such asf'tow.YV Asbestos hasfbeenl found to be a desirable packing subn rial 9 toward displacement as when softened f or renderedv plastic by summer heat, wherebyV the material would ooze'or escape serves only kto drive thepackingmaterial 'more firmly and securelyv into the openingcr crevice, and vso lprevent the leakage of the cushion body. 1;

rom the above description .it will be apparent thatthere is thus provided a device of the character described, possessing the.

particular' features of advantage before enumerated as desirable, but which obvic ously is susceptible of modification in its form, proportions, detail construction'l and arrangement of parts without departing from the principle involved or sacrificing any of its advantages.

lVhile in lorder to comply with the statute the invention has been described in language more or lessspecific as to structural features,'.it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the kspecific detailsy shown, but that the means and construction herein disclosed comprise but one of several modes of putting the invention into effect and the invention is therefore claimed in any of its forms or .modifications within the legitimate and valid scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described kmy invention, I claim: l

ll. A railway tie comprising a continuous sheet metal body, integral spaced pockets formed therein by depressing the material of said sheet at separated points, to form containers for a body of resilient material, a

' quantity of resilient cushion material-located in the pocket, sleeper'blocks seated within the pockets upon theL cushion material, and means for sealing the pockets about said blocks to prevent the escape of the cushion material and the entrance of moisture.

2. A railway rail support comprising a main body having a pocket therein, a yielding body in the bottom of the pocket, a sleeper block resting upon the yielding body and tending to distort the yielding body under the influence of pressure applied to said sleeper block, an upwardly converging'space between the block and the walls of the pocket,-

and a body of packing material subjected to upward pressure within such space by the distortion of the yielding body due/to pressure of the sleeperblock.

3. A railway rail support, a main body having a pocket therein, a sleeper' block resiliently mounted in said pocket and packing means sealing the intervening space betweenV the block and the walls of the pocket andV compressed therein by the resilient action of the sleeper block. f Y

. 4. A railway tie comprising a single continuous piece of sheet materiaL't-hev opposite margins kof which vare downturned, to form iianges,the medial portionofthe'sheet beingdepressed at spaced intervals to a depth Vgreater than the downturned flanges to form receptacles for sleeper blocks, said sheet having an opening formed therein intermediate said depressedy pockets to prevent center binding, and resilient sleeper blocks seated f in said pockets.

5. In a railway tie member, a single piece of sheet material, twor integral spaced pockets-formed therein, said piece of sheet material having openings therein, and down turned marginal iianges surrounding the openings.

6. In a railway tie, a receptacle, a body of cushion material therein, a sleeper block positioned within the receptacle and resting upon the cushion, anda body of .packing material interposed between the block and "cushion adjacent to the walls of the receptacle.

7. In a railway tie, a receptacle, a body of cushion material therein, a sleeper block resting upon the cushion material within the receptacle, and a body of packing material introduced from the under side of the block, into the clearance space between the block and walls ofthe receptacle.

l 8. In a railway tie, a receptacle, a body of fr f cushion material, a quantity of packing material also vwithin the receptacle, 'and a sleeper block bearing upon the cushion material and'by its vpressure thereon tending to displace the packing material by forcing it into the crevice betweenthe block and walls of the receptacle.

9.y In a railway tie, a receptacle, a body of cushion material therein, asleeper block linserted in the receptacle upon the lcushion material therein, the inner face ofthe block being reduced at its edges to form an inverted marginal. pocket intermediate the vsleeper blockandthe walls of the receptacle and a body of packing material located'in said inverted pocket.

10. In a railway tie, a receptacle, a body of cusliionmaterial therein, a'sleeper block inserted in the receptacle and bearing upon the cushion material, and `a body of packingV lmaterial tending toA seal ythe opening about n said block, said packing material being subjected to the pressure of traiiic under the in-v i'luence ofV which'it tends'tofenter the openying. I Y

ill. In a railway tie, arerepta-cle,` a body of cushion material therein, asleeper block 

